» Achieve

A Case For Action – Advocacy Tools
This web site offers campaign and outreach tools to build public awareness for reform efforts including raising standards and expectations, improving high schools, and increasing college readiness and access.

» Bay Area Coalition for Equitable Schools

School Community Partnerships in Action: The Oakland Story
This report offers information about how to create successful school, family, and community partnerships based on work done in Oakland, California.

» Coalition of Essential Schools

Show, Don't Tell: Strategies for Family Involvement in CES School
This article from the Horace Journal details how families can become involved in CES schools. The article includes strategies and examples of involvement from several schools.

» Education Trust

Tools for Parents and Community Engagement
This website provides parents and community-based agencies with the tools and help they need to make the most of school reform efforts in their community.

» Harvard Family Research Project

Focus on Families: How to Build and Support Family–Centered Practices in After–School
This guide is intended to help after-school program leaders, local decision makers and funders understand how to engage families in after-school programs.

Taking a Closer Look: A Guide to Online Resources on Family Involvement
This resource guide contains links to recent research, information, and tools about family involvement from over 100 national organizations.

» Thomas Rivera Policy Institute

Reaching Higher Ground: Parental Outreach Programs at the Post-Secondary Level
This study examines how postsecondary institutions are mobilizing to address the need for college information among Latino parents.

» Council for Corporate and School Partnerships

The How-to-Guide for School-Business Partnerships
This guide is designed for school officials and business leaders who are interested in engaging in school-business partnerships. This guide includes strategies to create, implement, sustain or evaluate this kind of partnership.

» Cross City Campaign for Urban School Reform

Resources on Schools and Communities for urban school leaders
This series of reports includes a training curriculum to help school reformers organize the community, a report documenting the work of community organizations and community funders, and other reports about the involvement of the community in school reform work.

» Institute for Research and Reform in Education

First Things First: Creating the Conditions and Capacity for Community Wide Reform in an Urban School District
This report from Gambone and Associates documents the strategies and activities of the Kansas City, Kansas First Things First partners from the preparatory phase of the initiative through the first year of implementation. The report also assesses the extent to which these activities were successful in achieving the early outcomes: creating the conditions and building the capacity of the system’s key stakeholders (political leaders, administrative staff and building staff) to plan and begin reform.

» Jobs for the Future

Connected Learning Communities: A Toolkit for Reinventing High School
This toolkit is intended to help practitioners, including both teachers and community partners from neighborhoods, workplaces, agencies, higher education institutions, and organizations, with the challenging task of implementing community-connected learning.

» KnowledgeWorks Foundation

Report from the National Summit on School Design
This report from the American Architectural Foundation (AAF) and KnowledgeWorks Foundation provides recommendations to help designers and educators make better decisions about the $30 billion spent annually on new or renovated school facilities.

Public Engagement and School Facilities: Conversation Workbook
This workbook is intended to help educators and school designers engage the community in school facilities conversations.

Schools as Centers of Community: Video and Discussion Guide
This case study and discussion guide from the KnowledgeWorks Foundation and the American Architectural Foundation assists local leaders and residents in creating constructive, meaningful dialogue on the importance of good school design and ways schools can become centers of their communities.

Stories of Change: Reconnecting Communities and Schools through Centers of Strength
This series of six case studies from the Ohio High School Transformation Initiative is intended to showcase successful school and community partnerships.

» Rural Schools and Community Trust

Resources and case-studies related to Place-based learning
This collection of articles and publications is intended to help educators understand place-based education—learning that is rooted in the unique history, environment, culture, economy, literature, and art of a particular place.

Resources and case-studies identifying "good rural high schools"
This collection of articles and publications is intended to help rural educators and leaders identify good rural high schools.

» California State PTA

Student Involvement Handbook
This handbook is intended help adults and students achieve successful student involvement in Parent Teacher Associations or Parent Teacher Student Associations.

» Forum for Youth Investment

Youth Action for Educational Change: A Resource Guide
This resource guide is intended to help educators, school reformers involve young people in the change process, help young people encourage new reform efforts and lend support to existing ones, and help other adults in the community gain the tools and knowledge needed to be effective partners in change.

Youth Engagement in Educational Change: Working Definition and Self Assessment
This working definition of youth engagement in educational change was developed with the input from the Carnegie Schools for a New Society youth engagement working group to explicitly define the multiple levels and multiple strategies for engaging young people in the school change process.

Creating "Good" Schools: Observation and Discussion Tool
This tool was created in order to help young people and adults develop a common language for talking about how to improve schools. The tool provides educators, young people, administrators, policy makers, parents, community members and other stake holders with a common lens for reflecting on their schools and for planning change.

» North Central Regional Education Lab

Using Student Engagement to Improve Adolescent Literacy: Quick Key to Action Guide
This guide provides educators and policymakers with action steps to improve adolescent literacy using the elements of student engagement in the areas of curriculum, instruction, assessment, and professional development.

» Our Education

A Million Voices, One Right
Our Education is an organization designed to give students a voice school reform conversation. Our Education aims to create a large base of youth across the nation who are passionate about improving our K-12 education system, and then activating that base to effect change on important local, statewide, and national education issues.

» SoundOut

Professional Development for Student Engagement
This professional development series of training and workshops is intended to help students understand how to engage constructively in schools and to help educators how to foster this involvement.

Student Voice Toolkit
This toolkit includes examples, organizations, publications, and other resources about student voice in schools.

» What Kids Can Do

What Kids Can Do Website
What Kids Can Do, Inc. is a national not-for-profit organization founded in 2001 for the purpose of making public the voices and views of adolescents. On its website, WKCD documents young people's lives, learning, and work, and their partnerships with adults both in and out of school.